Crown of Hidden Scales novel · Chapter 18 of 24
Chapter 18: What the Court Heard
For a long moment nobody in the great hall moved.
Then the old lord with the scar on his chin stepped out of the rows.
"I signed that wedding," he said.
His voice was cracked and loud, the voice of a man who had been holding a sentence for twenty-five years.
"I was a young baron."
"I stood at the chapel door the day the old king took her to wife, with ash from the east tower still on the wind."
"He was grey as a corpse. He wouldn't look at anyone."
"I said nothing, because I was told the queen had died of a fever."
He turned to face the hall.
"I have said nothing for twenty-five years. I am sorry for it. I heard her answer, my lords, and so did you."
"We heard," said a woman in green.
"We heard," said a man at the back, and then three more at once, and then the sound rose like water behind a dam.
The High Priest lifted both arms.
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